1. Small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches
   "The Myrciaria cauliflora's unusual trunk-growing fruits fascinated visitors";
   - jaboticaba, jaboticaba tree

Type of: fruit tree

Part of: genus Myrciaria, Myrcia, Myrciaria

Encyclopedia: Myrciaria cauliflora